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Executives from BP, Shell, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, and ExxonMobil testified before Congress yesterday. PowerLine does a great job of gleaning the testimony, but check out these quotes.

UPI reports that the Democrat-controlled Senate has rejected a Republican proposal to expand offshore and gas drilling.

Mailbox: How Valid is Peak Oil?
Saturday, May 10th, 2008

If there is a crash rather than free movement to alternative sources of energy and material, it is because we have brought too much regulation upon ourselves.

This can’t make Obama and Clinton happy. They don’t get to confiscate those “windfall profits” and plow them into their own environmental interests.

Conservation Can Only Take Us So Far
Saturday, April 26th, 2008

Bloomberg reports that oil prices are climbing in the wake of a pipeline shutdown in the United Kingdom and rebels attacking another pipeline in Nigeria. OPEC is keeping production down, and Iran wants oil to climb still northward.
Meanwhile NBC can burn up energy promoting a Green Week, part of which is advertising energy-efficient products like [...]